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arekdwill open up.”CRITICIZE OrPICIALSBeneath this surface «confidenc there was a good deal of serenes however. Mayor R. O. Johnson an other officials were being severel censored by the resort keepers, garr biers and theid lieutenants. Thing should never have gone as far a they did. they said. It would hav been better to have closed .low when The Times started the crusad It seems that the underworld wa told by .someone in a position power to ‘ never mind The Times an keep right on.”The dive keepers, especially, ar made, it was reliably reported. T'n keepers were told to “go to the eit, court” last Monday. That would pre vent the grand jury from indiotin them. They ■vv'fcnt Although n raids were made and no evidence ob tained against them their cases \velt; continued two weeks, giving th grand jury ample time to make a investigation. Now, it appears, the are strictly up against 1t. And the are sore. They say that they iav been terribly abused.Nobody seemed to know Satu-da night, or at least nobody cared t tell, why the slot machines wer not seized by the authorities an taken as evidence. Instead they ar merel.N out of sight and can be pu back into operation wfi-nevei th storm has blown over,”MORAXiE WEAXEITED Each day lessens the confldmc of the dive keepers, the slot mack ine owners and the liquor law vio lators that things are “going to b right again.” It is said that -he; are beginning to wonder whe’he they were given the “straight dope hen they were told that The Time was merely “after something” ant. that “things would be patched ip.’ To quote one attache of a gamb ling house correctly: “if that damned paper wants something why tht hell don’t they give it what it want! and cut this stuff out lefore thlt; game is ruined for everybody?” There you have the serious aspeo of the situation, from the viewpoint of the underworld. It begins tc look as though the game” was ruin-j ed for everybody for a long time tc [ come.| It was the driest Saturday night in many moons in I^ake county. Reports from Cedar I^ake, the Lake front cafes. East Hammond and Indiana Harbor were to the effect that it was like pulling teeth to get a drink. Some people were glad, ethers inclined to be mad. Buf as ne “liberal fellow said: “The Timesis right. The law should be enforced and anyway all you get nowadays is moonshine and filthy wine that isn’t fit for a hog to drink. *
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Mon, Jun 19, 1922
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